The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-06-11

Pln all sections, ana citizens and
1iess on the political question Of the
sgas received with great
Ifs text was, .The Prin-i
e 9nd Tend dencies of the Two
Political Parties.'' This led
ia to review at some length the
reeition of the two parties before and
d1ring the civil war, and when he
luded to Mr.. Lincoln and the pa:
ffIotic acts of the loyal Democratic
Ieaders, Douglas and Logan. there.
was great enthusiasm.
John All Logan lived the life that
hbeIieve Douglas would have lived
81 sseath mad spared Tim. And pew
the marble images of Lincoln and
Douglas stand side by side in the
rotunda of this Capitol, once adver-
saries in debates, then friends, and
now saints alike in the galaxy of the
patriotic dead of the Republic. The
marble statue of Logan should COM
plete the triumvirate."
Referring to existing issues, he
said: The future opens before US an
infinite variety of questions which
will turn on the extent of National
authority. The revenues must be
reduced. This the Republican party
did many times since the war, and
carefully selected for repeal or reduc-
ton taxes on home production, and
duties on articles that did not com.
pete with home industry. We added
to the free lists, made free from all
duty more than one third in value of
all the articles of merchandise i'm
ported from mforeigncountries includ-
ing all articles in common use among
our people which could not be pro-
duced here, including tea and coffee.
We levied dnty on the remaining
two-thirds sufficient to raise all the
revenue needed, almost exclusively
on articles that competes with home
products. In this way we so pro-
tected our industries that nearly
every article of common use on the
farm, in the workshop or the house
hold is made in this country. Nearly
all the articles except sugar, from
which this large revenue is derived,
are articles of luxury, mainly con-
sumed by the rich.
The immediate result of Demo-
cratic or Confederate ascendency is to
be struggle to break down our in
dustrial system. They now propose
to reduce the duties on articles that
we can and do now produce, and
thus bring our skilled artisans into
competition with foreign labor that
will inevitably reduce the prices of
domestic labor. The farmer, with
wool duty free, must either kill his
sheep or reduce the price of his wool,
and so with every article of domestic
production. But even on this policy
they cannot agree.
The Republican party, embracing
in it the great body of the producers
of the country, has uniformly, both
by State and National legislation.
adopted every just measure that has
been proposed to improve their con-
dition to promote employment, to
regulate the hours of labor, to secure
good wages and prompt pay in good
money. and stands ready to adopt
every just measure to open their way
to comfort, wealth and to all the ad-
vanced positions in public and pri-
vate life. The Confederate idea is
that Congress has no power to do any
of these things. 1t is unconstitu-
tional. The Democratic party has
therefore opposed the homestead law,
the tariff laws and, in many of the
States, especially where their strength
lay, have opposed wise laws for the
protection of laboring men. There
are some things that laws cannot do.
They cannot regulate the price of
labor or anythig else. This can only
be done by the law of supply and
demand. American laborers do not
desire such legislation. They only
want the free and ready means of
contesting with capital for fair di-
vision of the results of production.
We have no room in this country for
Anarchists, Communists or Socialists
the worst productions of despotic
governments. All our working men
want is an open field and fair
chance, with the right of organiza-
ton, cooperation and the friendly
sympathy of all classes and condi-
tions of men.
Mr., Sherman concluded as follows /:
"And so, fellow.citizens you may
run the gamut of all the political
questions, great and small, that
divide the two parties, and you will
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